US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Feb. 4 for "Acid treatment method for making organoselenium composite" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,338, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Acid treatment method for making organoselenium composite" was invented by Tarek Ahmed Yousef (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hanan A. Althikrallah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saad Shaaban (Almansourah, Egypt) and Mohsen Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an organoselenium-based nanocomposite includes acid-treating a mixture containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and palm waste with phosphoric acid to form an acid-treated mixture; carbonizing the acid-treated mixture to form a MWCNT/bioc...